The Town Critter

The Town Critter

So in my short time of dabbling in the dpxdc community I’ve seen a bunch of AU’s as one does, but there’s one that I’ve never seen so imma write it here. Now I don’t know if this has actually been done and if I’ve never noticed, so if it has feel free to tell me! Anyways onto the actual AU.

TW: ⚠️Body Horror and Talk about death and Centipedes⚠️

Danny gets cursed into being 3/5 of a bug. What bug you may ask? A centipede.

The premise of the story is that in a major fight with a ghostly magic user, Danny gets cursed to become a creature that instills fear and disgust to the general public. Since a lot of things generally don’t scare most of Amity Parkers, the spell was desperately grasping for something that would bring terror and fear into the hearts of the living around them. It just so happened that a woman walking down the street and caught sight of a centipede. Not a millipede that you would see every once in while that was much smaller and more bearable, but a giant centipede that with one bite could create a new rouge for Phantom. The one that fuels the nightmares of many. And so the spell latched on to the form ans fear a centipede takes and creates.

The ghostly mage deciding not to stick around and find out, gets the hell out of doge and disappears before Danny can soup them. Getting ready to chase the stupid ghost before his parents or the GIW get them, he is stopped when a searing pain starts in his body. Eyes widening in panic, Danny though fuck it to the chuck it bucket and scrammed like the ghostly wizard. He didn’t want to be caught by either of the mentioned people either, and flew up high and kept flying, even as the pain started to rival the ever so brief but lasting eternity of pains the portal left him with. The wind whipping past his face as his body slowly morphs until he ends up crashing into a field, and while his core fought the spell, it still took a strong hold on him. As he slowly blinks, the black spots wavering in and out, he could feel how his body grew, his skin feeling too tight, his legs merging together to form a tail, the feeling of his spine popping out and covering the tail. He could feel each and every new leg as it cracked out and a slosh could be heard as if blood was leaking out and onto the ground. The feeling of his side ripping to accommodate the four new arms, something goey dripping down as if coating his arms and tail, slowly turning freezing cold as they hardened. His head felt as if it was splitting, everything to loud as his ears thinned and extended still staying in the same face. At one point he even felt himself detransform. And at last, he felt the pain at the very end spike as if two barbed pieces of wire had shredded through the new appendage, and suddenly the world was no more, even as voices neared.

As for the dpxdc part of it all? He landed in the Kents field.

So basically its like Clark 2.0 just a lot more blood and tears and a much bigger boy that’s very hard to hide. Imma just use bullet points from here.

When Martha and Johnathan go out to inspect what the hell the wracket was, the crying and moans of pain pulling on the poor old couples heart, fully expecting to have to put poor some animal out of its misery they sure weren’t ready for the sight to greet them

Danny in his cursed for is a combination of his two forms with skunk hair that covers two too bigs eyes the actual size of dinner plates, with half of one armored leg the size of Martha, safe to say their was almost no hiding him.

At first he was apprehensive when he woke up in their barn, cleaned as much as they could with hose and a sponge, but slowly they gained his trust.

The towns folk of Smallville were just as apprehensive, if not more so then the monster the Kents took in. But eventually they caved when one day a toddler that got lost was returned unharmed praising this giant half bug boy, calling him the next big hero, and how could they not except him?

When it started to get colder the ladies got together to make a giant six armed sweater for the their dear little critter, because he may not be the cutest but he sure was getting up there next to Pams little Pomeranian, and the men started to renovate the Kents “cellar” or the giant hole Danny had dug in his first days when he wanted to feel safe, under the house. They added additional heating and a latch hidden under the rug in the living room for when Danny wanted to get into the house without getting out of the “cellar”

Danny helps around the farm when he starts to feel better, reaching places that would need a ladder and joints that neither Kents had now a days, and doing some of the heavy lifting here and there

When the Supers finally come around for the holidays, Clark is instantly suspicious of the new “cellar”, but with a warning glare sent his way he put his hands up and just got settled in, no matter how much he wanted to investigate

Jon, though, didn’t seem to get the message and immediately went to explore the new space

Now obviously Danny had tunneled further down for the winter, branching out all the way to the actual little town. The occupants fine as long as the critter doesn’t burst the pipes again

So Jon only sees a warm basement with a bunch of tunnels leading to different places and wants to know where they go, and like any good Super uses his x-ray vision only to see this giant centipede human looking thing rounding the corner into the main tunnel

Danny, scared to move cause he got used to people just treating him like a lil kid, stars at the actual thirteen year old, fear clear as day, and could only cover his too long ears as the boy screamed

Jon rushing out, it met with the frantic Kent family asking whats wrong while Martha and John marches over shaking their heads and muttering

Danny is then introduced on the spot

I’ll reblog this with the art tmr! There’s more I want to add but imma stop for now

Pov: the justice league watching phantoms vlogs (insert cheesy vlog name here) of what its like as a non jl hero and how their denying to even look at amity fucked him and everyone involved over…

Yeah danny took one out of embers book and started to record all his fights, but instead of creating music he makes vlogs about it.

Also older danny

As always the @ is my god forsaken TT account

@moss-on-trees I got the prologue done :’)

Link to the og prompt

Thank you so much for allowing me to write with this prompt!

Reblog if u vote :)

Don’t mind me- Imma just reblog to remember later-

After Neil Gaiman said that there was a planned scene where dream walks in the classroom while Hob is giving a lecture. Somehow, I get the image that Hob holds little black cat shaped Morpheus out to show to his students just like the ionic lion king scene.

i have no talent so can somebody draw that? pretty please😭😭😭

Graceful Giant AU

So, I couldn’t find who posted about there being a DP ballerina AU and how they couldn’t find the og post, and this may not be the post, but i was inspired. Now onto the AU.

(Click on it for better quality, the @ is my TikTok acc!)

When Danny was young, his sister, Jazz, was just beginning to get into psychology, and read how exercise helps the brain and clear up people’s thoughts and yada yada. So, wanting to test this theory out, she asked her little brother, Danny, to help her. She tried many times to get him into the little league try outs for all, I mean all of the sport. But Danny, poor poor sweet Danny, was being bullied out of all the sports. So, in one last ditch effort, Jazz signed him up for one of the most grueling sports she could think of that none of those boys would touch with a ten foot poll.

Ballet

And so the spark of passion was lit, and the flame kept growing inside of Danny. Of corse, he hid that flame at school. Already he was consider an outcast, and least they knew his most favorite activity. As time went on he finally had some friends, Sam and Tucker. Once they learned one of his passions, they demanded to see him preform. So they worked out a time and date, and went home for the night, and unfortunately for them…

Someone was listening

And when that day came, and they had set up, tucker hit play and Danny started dancing. It was like watching the cosmos slowly spin around them, taking their breathes away until the were gasping at every little movement.

Until the others showed up, and suddenly those were gasp from pain. The A-listers of Amity had decided to ruin the little performance. Destroying the make shift stage, the speaker, and even dumping black paint all over Danny and his ballet shoes, painting them black. And as soon as it started, it ended, and the only thing left still intact was the flowers Sam had brought for him. After all, dont you give flowers as a sign of congratulations?

And so with tears streaking down his face and eyes full of rage, eyes that had been full of pure euphoria before, he stomped on home. His friends trailing behind him worryingly. And when he slammed the front door open?

His parents were still in that damn lab

His anger and anguish soon took over and he stomped down into that stupid lab to get his parents. After all, ballet shoes were expensive and needed to be replaced. The stairs creaked and he walked down them, and creaked even more with his friends rushing after him.

His parents weren’t there

Letting a frustrated scream, he looked over at their desk to see if they left any sort of indication as to where they went. It soon became to clear that they were mourning for the giant metal death trap built into the wall. It hadn’t worked so in their disappointment, they went to get something to cheer them up.

Whipping his head up, he could hear the murmuring from his friends get even louder, but Danny didn’t care, and so he marched into the death trap and looked for what went wrong. Suddenly the wet paint finally decided to act as a wet liquid does, and Danny started to fall. He barely caught himself on a little box inside of the death trap, and his foot landed on on something that gave slightly. He only registered a click before

Pain.

When Danny finally awoke, its was to a white ceiling with Jazz over him.

Sobbing, why was she sobbing?

“I’m sorry Danny, I’m so, so sorry.” She kept repeating the mantra between tears. His mouth felt as if aunt Alicia had stuffed raw rhubarb down his throat agin. Everything hurt.

Everything besides his legs, why couldn’t he feel his legs?

Tears slowly started to fall down his face, the fire withered to nothing but a little ember burning his insides. He knew, Danny knew what that meant, and he knew what that would end in. Slowly the world goes fuzzy, and everything goes silent, only the blinding light above burned into his eyes. Looking away, he watched to what could almost be a silent movie of his sister yelling furiously at his parents, most likely going on about how they ruined his life.

But then he felt it

The warmth started to spread from his toes, slowly wrapping around his legs, hugging his torso and delicately grasping his arms. When he looked at them, they were pitch black, absorbing the light around them. The vine like thing was pulsing almost like a comforting lullaby. And slowly, he started to get up, he could feel the vines on his legs, they were shifting and joining, breaking apart and repeating.

And he stood

The shocked faces of the adults and children alike stared at him like he was a miracle. Like he just defied death and the punishment it gave for defying it. He took slow steps over to where his parents are. The numbness never went away, and he seemed to be the only one to see the inky tendrils.

His foot falls were like gun shots across the room. His slow walk ended a few feet in front of his parents. He could see the bottom of his mothers face and his fathers sternum. Looking up through his bangs, he said words that would kill almost any parent.

“I hate you so much that it hurts.”

The cries of out rage from his parents were like buzzing bees as he breaks into a sprint down the hall. The doctors and nurses and parents and patients alike couldn’t even seem to snag the back of his gown. He briefly registered that a cop car pulled up before sprinting down an alley way.

He liked his new shoes

And then, when he heard the foot falls of the security and police?

He twirled

And with a blinding light, stood a predator in sheep’s clothing. And the police and security ran back to the building and cars respectively. The “child” wasn’t a child, not to them at least, after all,

What child is 7 ft tall?

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In this AU Danny is more of an eldritch horror then cute little ghost boy.

His sister new the second she saw the monster responsible for the entire hospitals shut down that, that was her little brother.

Danny was later found at home humming happily to himself, coloring in his nasa sketch book and swinging his legs.

As time goes on Danny keeps getting bigger and bigger, almost twenty ft tall in his ghost form, and 6’7 in his human form.

His parents know something is up, and that the monster, because that thing could never have been a ghost, not once, is connected to this, but they just don’t know how

Danny still does ballet, but this time with more vigor, keeping up and making sure he is on par with the female dancers, because now he has power and he needs away to control it. And what better way then a form of art thats all about control?

Everything goes the same, except Danny isn’t even disliked, no he’s feared and he doesn’t mind it, it helps him get fights over faster and lets him dance under the moon and stars.

If you wanted to you can do a crossover, but this post is already to long, and i might make another post for this Au for a cross over later.

Alternatively magical girl AU ☠️